Notices by Carlton Gibson (carlton@chaos.social)

RE: https://chaos.social/@carlton/115838826357814464

Time for a retoot:

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/116640028498006151

When I was a kid, the argument about privatisation was that it was “selling the family silver”. This is what that meant.

“Margaret Atwood has said that her inspiration for The Handmaid’s Tale was reading the news from Argentina”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n04/rachel-nolan/the-grandson-of-estela

@webology @ericholscher @maxine don’t be scared Jeff 🤗

@webology @ericholscher @maxine yep, yep. Vibe hosting is probably a bad idea, agreed.

@ericholscher @maxine GitHub can’t handle it, so neither could something smaller?

My roundup from @djangoconeurope

https://buttondown.com/carlton/archive/thoughts-from-djangocon-europe/

#TheStackReport #DjangoConEurope #DjangoConEu2026 #Mantle #DjangoOnTheMed

Small federated community hosting sounds idyllic at this point tbh ✊

https://hachyderm.io/@maxine/116488806802513575

Current vibes

> The kid who tries to run Blender on a Chromebook doesn’t learn that his machine can’t handle it. He learns that Google decided he’s not allowed to. Those are completely different lessons.

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@djangoconeurope/116181865648089811

This looks good! 🤩

Q: is there not some kind of federated alternative to DNS? Would that even work?

Running linters in precommit hooks is a curse.

There. I said it.

@EmmaDelescolle I ❤️ this timeline 🥳

@mahryekuh it’s not pre-commit I object to. It’s the whole thing. Not the place for these checks.

> from some point of view, by using static typing in Python we get the worst of both worlds: zero guarantees, still slow, and it prevents patterns where dynamic typing is actually useful.

@antocuni not holding back. 👀

https://antocuni.eu/2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations-and-goals/#static-typing-in-python

Serialisation frameworks are the new queues. Catnip.

https://github.com/apache/fory

@webology always with the agents Jeff 😜

It’s not missing! We have an abundance of options. This is just one more.

I like exploring the different takes that they each offer, as with queues in times of old.

That is a banging first paragraph:

> Most of what we call progress in software is just motion. New tools, new frameworks, same problems. Maybe fancier logos. Our industry always has this collective thrill that a new fancy method, framework, process will make things infinitely better. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps.

https://yusufaytas.com/most-of-what-we-call-progress/ via @wsvincent

I keep refreshing my mailbox, expecting this week’s @djangonews.

That’s tomorrow Carlton 🤦